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What does it mean to be an arts administrator, and an arts administration educator, in this new era? Is it enough to be a skilled marketing manager of a local chamber orchestra or mainstream (i.e. not challenging) theatre company, or is more required of all of us as artists and arts administrators? If as Shelley said, artists are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, what does that mean for our curricula and how will and should we as artists, administrators, and arts administration educators, handle the shock of the Internet’s alteration of what performance, publication, exhibition and audience mean, while the fundamental questions of what it means to be a modern society are now so urgently and shockingly put before us

Michael Wilkerson has taught writing, arts administration, literary interpretation, and other subjects for more than two decades, principally at American University, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin. He was executive director of two artists’ residency progra... Read More →